The Scalar Hexaquark $uuddss$: a Candidate to Dark Matter?

Abstract

It is conventionally argued that Dark Matter (DM) has a non-baryonic nature, but if we assume that DM was frozen out before primordial nucleosynthesis and could not significantly impact primordial abundances this argument may be evaded. Then a hypothetical $SU(3)$ flavor-singlet, highly symmetric, deeply bound neutral scalar hexaquark $\mathrm{S}=uuddss$, which due to its features has escaped from experimental detection so far, may be considered as a candidate for a baryonic DM. In the present work we calculate the mass and coupling constant of the scalar six-quark particle $\mathrm{S}$ by means of the QCD sum rule method. Our predictions for its mass are $m_S=1180_{-26}^{+40}\mathrm{MeV}$ ($m_s=95\mathrm{MeV}$) and ${\tilde{m}}_S=1239_{-28}^{+42}\mathrm{MeV}$ ($m_s=128\mathrm{MeV}$). Although these values of mass would produce thermally the cosmological DM abundance, existence of this state may contradict to stability of the oxygen nuclei, which requires further thorough analysis.

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